Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
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-- George Santayana I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
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Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
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futur Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
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-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Recreation and Sports Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Recreation and Sports
The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Recreation and Sports "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Recreation and Sports
This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
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-- Guy Almes "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Recreation and Sports For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
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-- Rainer Maria Ril The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Recreation and Sports
Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
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- Umberto Eco Recreation and Sports The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Recreation and Sports
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-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
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tha This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
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-- Fred Astaire Recreation and Sports That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Recreation and Sports
Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
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-- Fran Lebowitz "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Recreation and Sports "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
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The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
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-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Recreation and Sports
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Recreation and Sports "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
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2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
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-- Oscar Wilde The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
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-- Abraham Lincoln Recreation and Sports The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports
I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
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-- George Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
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-- Katharine Hepburn First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Recreation and Sports The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
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